They Banned Apex Packs

[@Grrt]

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[@usmansikandar4406]

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[@Mesakezuit]

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[@jasephase2k933]

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[@xythiera7255]

​@@dolphinii3673 Nothingos free and for the majority of peopl it does nothing .

[@YOUNGxCRAVEN]

Bro traveled, dedication

[@DisgruntledGuitarist]

Take notes, EA. Players prefer to buy flights to other countries than put up with your gacha tactics.

[@pratikpuri7079]

its the eurostar. ( Train )

[@Ooga_booga_dooga]

Bro really woke up and said, "I'm going to travel to Belgium so I can get a skin for cheaper".....respect (200! HOLY CRAP THKS)

[@Cplayz08]

And then didn't even get the caustic skin 😢

[@Ooga_booga_dooga]

​@@Cplayz08exactly

[@thsxi]

Bro took a whole Eurostar to get to belgium. Idk what’s worse, the fact you over paid for eurostar or had to come to london for it.

[@Grrt]

Tell me about it dude

[@lny76]

@@Grrtprolly the london part icl

[@sparquisdesade]

The hilarious part is loot boxes were truly the lesser evil. The new skin shop/pass systems are all way more predatory.

[@Grrt]

fr, overwatch is a shining example

[@Thesuperduperbooster]

They’re both predatory and bad.

[@SaladNeoyt]

Apex everybody will buy a $350 bundle

[@mr.p215]

If I have to choose between two evils I would rather not choose at all.

[@taylorjacquez7451]

Relax Geralt, the worse is yet to come.​@@mr.p215

[@Shifooooo]

I live in Belgium, been playing since day 1, every battle pass, own 14 heirlooms, able to vpn outside belgium to buy pcks or skins I usually cant, thousands of crafting metals which give me free or 40$ heirlooms in collection events if I save up, it's really great here

[@Womix-x9n]

I admit that here in Belgium, we have it good (for apex). It's just annoying to have to use a VPN just to buy a skin in the shop because the game includes packs in it.

[@Shifooooo]

@@Womix-x9n true, but i dont rly mind the extra 5 seconds of work for amazing values compared to other countries

[@Crefip]

hoe heb je dat gedaan? bij mij lukt het niet

[@Shifooooo]

@@Crefip gewoon in België wonen en een VPN naar USA doe ik meestal, werkt altijd super vlot

[@vincentvandeperre1670]

@@Shifooooo werkt al paar seizoenen niet meer

[@christianjustin20]

Im suprised that EA doesnt just make skins in Belgium like $50 a piece since they cant have loot boxes.

[@camilosomers4087]

Dont give them ideas, it's already bad enough here

[@DianaPoli-os4lt]

Gearup can improve some latency issues appropriately, but it can't do anything about very poor broadband

[@SentryUwU]

this is why we follow Garret

[@JackGreen390]

What a legend for going all the way to Belgium just for a Caustic skin

[@RiinzL]

Lol, "La Bourse" and it's McDonald in the end frames. Hope you enjoyed your stay in Belgium

[@zachasar590]

I hope every country in the world makes the same law f all the companies like EA promoting gambling to children and scamming people

[@metalskinn460]

This. I ate the$10-30 cost for buying skins outright and still willing to. But making me gamble for shit I want is predatory af. I refuse to buy into that.

[@bertuj]

i mean , i'm from belgium , and if anything they just made shit a lot more expensive for us now to get anything in games

[@Blobite]

Grrt can we stop putting bots in Hong Kong servers? Plz the pcs have been blowing up

[@TheRedDepths]

You act like he's the one who put them there lol

[@jaheim24k]

It’s a joke

[@nuruhu5122]

dude had me laughing at " respawn bringing a new gambling event for shooting your gun" XD just imagine that .

[@yahootube90]

"Belgium's a beautiful country" Then shows off Burger King and McDonald's 😆

[@thereala320]

Fun fact, it's not impossible for console players, if you have a vpn on your phone then use a mobile hotspot you can basically use a vpn on console.

[@raccoon.legion]

The fact that all countries havent followed suit on the illegalization of gambling in games is wild, it would benefit literally everybody but the 1%

[@ferdithetank7535]

That's the thing, a lot of governments only recently started to acknowledge videogames in general, despite them being probably the third most popular pillar of entertainment industry. Here in Russia they still treat it as "children-oriented" despite the majority of gamers being over 20. That's why there are so few game-related laws, they don't consider it a serious business.

[@ferdithetank7535]

@The-Anti exactly, and since the corona pandemic gaming became a lot more common due to isolation and other factors. However, most lawmakers and administrative figures are not gamers and have no clue about it being such a big industry.

[@DarthRane113]

All that will happen is that they'll do stuff like they did with Belgium, ramp up the price tags on EVERYTHING and then lock the MAIN item behind buying all the other ones

[@raccoon.legion]

@@DarthRane113 If they ramp it up much more though people will refuse to buy shit, its already bad enough

[@DarthRane113]

@@raccoon.legion they don't care, Golden rule of making money is it's easier to convince one person to buy a more expensive item than a bunch of people to buy a cheap one. People with money to burn care a lot less about the price. That's why something like 80% of their profits is made off of less than 5% of their users . I forget the exact numbers so don't quote me on that, but it is a comparable comparison. Because a large majority of their money is made off of an extremely small proportion of their users

[@whoneedbag5264]

Really hope this video blows up. Perfectly explained how predatory EA has become

[@jakethornton4856]

I will never spend any money in an event that is like the Shadow society event

[@bananajesus9133]

I won't spend any money on any event in any game lol

[@itzjustabzthing6166]

😂😂 bro said ima fly halfway across the world to save money on a skin 😂😂

[@NockaMama]

I work in the casino business, and loot boxes is exactly like gambling.

[@Womix-x9n]

7:44 It's not true, because as for me, I'm on console (Xbox) and I live in Belgium. Craft materials are fine, but when there are really cool skins in the shop with packs inside, I have to use a VPN by modifying the DNS of my Xbox with the VPN I have to be able to buy the skin! So, it is possible to use a VPN for consoles, at least for Xbox. For PlayStation, I don't know about that. :)

[@Vopana]

How do you modify it to be the vpns dns?

[@Womix-x9n]

@@Vopana Hi, I'm sorry, I had written a nice long explanation of how to do it step-by-step, but apparently KZbin won't let me post the message at all! So to help you as best as I can, I recommend the following video from CyberghostVPN's KZbin channel: How to Setup Your VPN for Xbox One/Series X (Easy Step-by-Step Guide). And if you still need help, feel free to ask me for any of my social media and I will try to help.

[@6027]

Wow I know nothing about the Belgium store were different than others. Dammit, I missed that one R99 moogle skin, if only I could pair that with my Wattson's moogle skin 😢

[@Nautilus_pilot]

It would be one thing if all of the items were the same rarity, but when half or of the items are epic tier banners, stickers, and sprays that no one will ever use, it makes it significantly harder to justify making the choice to buy an event.

[@somaszanto5508]

I like these longer Grrt videos

[@alternatecheems8145]

They don't sell bundles like the loba edition bundle without the packs because the packs are used as a padding mechanism to bypass laws in countries like Australia regarding showing a discounted price on items that cannot be bought seperately. basically the apex packs are added in just so the actual value matches the advertised value.

[@pixelschubser2556]

There needs to be an worldwide law to ban companies from adding gambling mechanics through things like packs and also force them to make *EVERY* item they put in games to be buyable for an resonable amount of money. (maximum 18$ for cosmetics and maximum 100$ for everything else like 30 day boosters)

[@stephcuv]

i love the fact that so many people use the belgium glitch to get crafting materials when me and my friends used it to get the normal battle pass because we thought it was just better to get the garuanteed legendary skin each season instead of 800 crafting materials wich isnt even enough to buy one legendary

[@fancymustache3793]

to any wondering why Gachas arent banned is because unlike lootboxes theres a pity system to deny your bill from getting to high at a certain point. Some may you lose something like a 50/50 before being fully garunteed to get what you want but you are garunteed something of similar rarity and the next time you reach that pity it will br exactly what you want

[@layfonal1889]

What's funny is I got the Caustic skin right from the first pack since I still got 500+ left without expecting much

[@comprehensivecomparison]

the worst thing about the shadow society event for me was that i didnt check twitter that day so i didnt know apex destroyed the game (again) and my items would be taken straight from my account, guess i didnt want the car skin anyway

[@Xapek-tw9xg]

I love how you consider living in Belgium a glitch, lol.

[@lumleviathan]

The fact anyone buys skins priced as much as any other AAA game is reduculous. yall could probably spend just as much time enjoying the other games without the bad servers, lag, ping, game breaking abilities and hackers ruining the game just for some pixles. the money doesnt get used for anything useful just more expensive events. i havent felt the same since the final fantasy event. i was a huge fan but i cant with it anymore.

[@guillaumepinoy2172]

Yeah so in the end it's an even more expensive skin in Belgium 😓as a Belgian I really hate the fact that even though it's cool we can buy selected skins if we want to buy out a whole event we have to pay a lot more money

[@TheGoldenApex]

IM SO JELOUS OF BELIGIAN PEOPLE RIGHT NOW WTFFFFF!!! Nice video tho garretI love u!!! Ur insane for going to Belgium!!!❤️❤️❤️🐐🐐🐐🔥🔥🔥

[@Inf4mousKidGames]

Dont PLAY!!! the previous CEO of EA had that exact idea of gambling to reload your weapon

[@bananajesus9133]

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if that was true for these greedy mega corporations

[@malvo2099]

Beglium is actually ahead of the whole world about this

[@guentteeguentee8315]

Could you say I HATE MY STUPID CHUNGUS LIFE in the next video pls

[@Grrt]

Maybe...

[@ferremilis7311]

@grrt u can buy packs but u gotta use the vpn the other way around, i personally use a free vpn, called bear vpn or smthn, i set it to NY and just buy my packs

[@Tkayzzzz]

Man that Bosnian SpongeBob is funny cause I’m bosnian 😂😂

[@ApexAltermain]

@Grrt I'm starving in the basement where are my rationings you promised this morning :(

[@bentceusters5321]

I live in Belgium. Fun fact, they do not enforce their anti-gambling law as much as people think, not when it comes to games and microtransactions that is. So just like our 6 different governments, this particular law is worth fuck all.

[@lordfoof4264]

Such a cool intro animation for caustic! But shop is sad for gambling 😢

[@DookiePox]

I got the Caustic skin in 1st pack.

[@fallenjedi3015]

I actually lucked out and got the Caustic skin in my first pack. I wanted the death standing emote too, but figured I'd just stick with the one pack and be done with it.

[@フェムボーイかわいい]

Its funny how cs2 has that xray thing for cases where they banned that gambling thing yet in the netherlands we cant open cases at all. No keys. No xray. Nothing. Yet we can still gamble away with apex packs and the gta online casino…

[@jasperokeke3461]

When you go outside to still not touch grass. Truly a gamer moment😂

[@ChatoEditsIdk]

9:00 NOT THE ZOMBIE VS PLANT MUSIC

[@thanatos2915]

Hey, I'm Belgian, so just to clarify, when you were using the bug to get the Belgian pass, I was using my account in France to get the events pack during the events. And now that we can't do that anymore, my best buddy sends me the packs as a gift.

[@SirSalad4651]

I miss when everything in games was unlockable through at the very least grinding, and a big micro transaction was like 10 bucks😓

[@arbiterelite9294]

i got the cobalt katar from my first pack opening and i’m actually mad because i don’t even support this system 😭

[@ferdithetank7535]

Imagine a company being so petty it would rather not sell you a thing you want if there's *a chance* you get it without participating in their manipulative schemes. Maybe I just don't completely understand the economics there, but feels like an executive power fantasy thing rather than a logical choice.

[@Ancy-tf]

3:33 BOSNIA MENTIONED?!?!? 🔥🦅🦅🦅🦅🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@dubchik02]

this gambling system is hilarious, do they really think people are going to gamble for nothing? i would buy loba skin if it was available to buy, not gamble for it

[@wra1th075]

" it think it is quite insane to draw a connection between loot boxes and gambling" buddy i think you are insane for going to a whole country just to buy skins for a game cheaper

[@Grrt]

sarcasm my friend :)

[@lordfoof4264]

Fooofy wooofy!

[@mikeyplayzwrld]

@@Grrt Lootboxs quite literally are gambling.

[@jmo8192]

​@@mikeyplayzwrld He knows, he's just being sarcastic 🤣

[@itzaayla]

it’s actually insane to me how little apex’s outlandishly evil monetization gets talked about. i used to kinda enjoy new events cuz i could win like 1-3 free packs and id usually get a skin wether it was from the event or not. now they dont do that and theyve gotten twice as greedy. i barely even play anymore cuz theres barely a way to earn anything you actually want and even tho ive spent a large amount of money in the past, i just haven’t enjoyed the game enough to give it that same treatment. why does apex get a pass for this shitty type of stuff? cuz it’s free to play? it’s insane to me

[@Visually_perfect-999]

Are we gonna ignore the kill feed 3 minutes in where its (ur dad asked me to top him!) Lmao

[@maozedowner5915]

>EA >Scummy microtransaction practices Name a more iconic duo.

[@bor0423]

It might be cheaper to take the eurostar to Belgium and buy a specific skin than just gambling your money in apex

[@gagewarner6502]

What i wouldn't give to replace seasonal stat trackers, holosprays, and almost any blue rarity skins in the passes with mats or anything else.

[@EchoEkow]

The dedication is unmatched

[@thecreepybunny4327]

Live in belgium, sometimes in rare cases the law is a win, but it mostly is not. Gotta use a vpn in alot of games to be able to get cosmetics which is a pain to do’

[@visual_chris]

I’m honestly more and more confused by these tactics.. Don’t they loose money through this? Like.. if people want;let’s say one skin - Then they can’t do it so they will only get that one 100 pack and leave the event store past that. Pretty dumb practice imo..

[@FloresTv1]

Miss when they gave us 1 free legendary pack every event

[@HLB60276]

Got him on my 3rd try, the skin perfectly matches my masters frame, its siiiick

[@bananajesus9133]

Gotta say it's really sad/pathetic how these mega corporations are getting away with literally making gambling addiction worse(my opinion) I mean like they make millions upon millions in profit each year. As the saying goes "the richer get richer and the poorer get poorer" smh

[@s0ulsynth]

they dont sell bundles without the packs because the packs mean jackshit otherwise but just help inflate the price high af it's so predatory i hate it

[@papaguro]

How did you like belgium tho, I'm curious because i live there

[@tom_apex]

THE APEX VIDEO OF ALL TIME

[@LikeToBeBossy]

Europe is considering making this law work for all their countries

[@pekkatrool6389]

8:15 " cher passagers votre attention"

[@alsoallumz8121]

Im from Belgium and the law doesn't make any sense. Where allowed to gamble when 18. So i think the same should be integrated into online packs. They need to make a valid system to verify that ur 18+

[@killby19gaming74]

Im in belgium and since VPNs aren't illegal in the country. Well i can use them to open apex packs

[@tothewin5388]

Ea and Respawn had made 3 billion dollars from apex and still no titanfall 3 😢

[@gummybear2129]

I legit felt lucky bought one of the packs for this event and got the skin first try

[@GvcciKvngGaming]

Spendin $530 on a video game is terrible. Especially if the game came from EA

[@brandondb6190]

I am speaking to my local mps about getting EA banned from doing loot boxes in Canada

[@tetmayer2015]

I can't express how mad I am. I just finished high school, there's no way I'm going to spend 100$ to get a caustic skin and I have 2000h on him. I hate EA. Greedy bastards. Shame the skin isn't going to come back.

[@Andi-7708]

Bruh, that‘s probably the best video i‘ve ever seen 😂

[@zerocool2233]

gear up doesn't lower your ping, it shows you a ping from the server they're using to the game server so if both are closer then it's obviously going to be lower, you're still the same distance from the game servers. they offer the same BS most vpns do.

[@kikiwal094]

So I live in Belgium and to be honest it's convenient but sometimes I just want to buy a pack but I can't because of this law

[@marcomartens9144]

Love gear up thx so much

[@SPECTRAL_ACE]

I somehow managed to get lucky and get the Caustic skin on my first apex pack and I was happy and then I realized I don't have Caustic unlocked

[@snoopuppers6319]

WE MOVIN TO BELGIUM WITH THIS ONE🔥🔥🔥

[@WILLHAVENGAMING]

So wait, you can’t see the link between gambling and loot boxes, yet you traveled to Belgium just to get a skin. Am I missing something?

[@nashdashflash]

My enjoyment of and willingness to pay for cosmetics dramatically dropped when they fixed the Belgium patch. I loved collecting more materials for free skins, and often found myself buying skins with actual money/coins because I felt like it was my fault if I didn't save up the free materials. Hope that makes sense... Basically, I'd spend the free materials somewhat frivolously on anything cool... So when something came up that I HAD to have, but no longer have enough materials... I blamed my own lack of self control (instead of EA's greed) and bought it with real money. Since they patched it, I haven't bought anything... Not to make a point, it's just how it doesn't seem worth it in my mind any longer.

[@Cerluxx]

by the way its also in the netherlands not just belgium

[@Senjor290]

i aint letting some gearup to use my pc for mining bitcoin 💀

[@justa2919]

So what I got from this is... it's Belgium's fault that we didn't get Titanfall 3?

[@greyplaysstuff]

The pvz music gave me nostalgia😭😭😭

[@JustSomeDude848]

Literally wont get the skin because of the predatory gambling, even though i really want. Good job EA. Other countries need to follow and pass anti-gambling laws in video games.

[@thedumbone2687]

Idk man, belgium is a nice country, might move for skins.

[@ErranDrone]

I hope someone sues the F out of EA eventually. 12 years old spending fortunes to get a digital item is disgusting.

[@striderman-]

How tf am i just finding out about the Belgium glitch

[@bogdii1337]

So people from Belgium must use a VPN to connect to any other countries so they could buy the 100 apex pack everytime it shows in the store, anyways, for us the rest of the world, its not much easier to get a heirloom either XD

[@ezxrxvenge]

Yes but i'm on console so it's literally impossible to get an heirloom, but i won one, very lucky.

[@GregDzikunu]

The ping reducer don’t work for the people in the US

[@SnakeAteMyDog]

I bro fr using Plants vs Zombies main theme song 💀

[@it_was_taken1121]

i love the booster but i already used it before and you only get 1 day free which is bs, there should be a free plan where you just have to watch an ad before connecting or something

[@CayCaramel]

i bought one apex pack the first one for the new event for 100mcoins and got the loba skin, which is the one i was gambling for anyway...... however i wont be so lucky all the time and rlly hope they wont continue with the trend to not make the skins purchasable